Hm, at the first glance, my experience as in IT-guy was that your advice here can’t work. But I always got good advices from your side, so my thinking was “Jeff for sure checked it in practice, in IT the surprises are always possible!”. I was wrong! I checked it not with one, but with 3 seconds wait, in vain!
Here is why your advice can’t work: for some weird reason, Open Link action functions in a way that it copy the URL address submitted in the action in the clipboard, provided it is in ONE custom action.
More weird: Open Link is is copying URL specified in clipboard only if Copy to clipboard action is stated in the very same custom action!!! Examples:
One action:
- Copy to clipboard: “from copy”
- Open URL: “”
Clipboard after action execution: “”
Separate actions (e.g. two buttons):
- Copy to clipboard: “from copy”
- Open URL: “”
Clipboard after action execution: “from copy”!?
Here is the most weird thing HOW this bug was produced???
As an experienced programmer, I can’t imagine how it was possible to produce such complex damageing action in this context!? Why the cipboard is filled in during Open Link action? And especially why solely AFTER Copy to clipboard action in same custom action. If separated, there is no such clipboard filling by open link action!?
This problem is already reported as a bug: